Winfrey recently confessed that she considered canceling the project, explaining: "I went to her house just to say, 'What are you doing? Let's get real here'... because it's television and we stand to gain if it does well.

"But the real truth is - and anybody who knows me, certainly my producers on the way there - I said, 'If I get here and Lindsay isn't serious, I will shut this thing down today'."